The Wilmingtonian., 1887-04-09
The Magazines.

pectancy to the opening % apter of the April
CENTURY which 'ntinues those interesting
articles upon the English cathedrals.
There could be- no more entrancing snb-
jet than this-and the style of writing is
captivating. What then can be said Of the
illustrations ! They are simply poem of
which the letIer-pI ess is the prose. These
are the bellies kttres of our day. These de-
lightful essays are Incompatible. We could
not miss them. To deprive US Of til. peru
sal of these pages would be to relegate us to
the Dark Ages. We are inspired NTH the
brillisncy of the writing, tue tales of history
The insight to contemporary and antique ar
chitecture, to the beautiful, the glaudest ef
iiorescence Of architecture, to the sunny day
light of human. effort. The ancient ,ueatiS,
the velVety lawns of sequestered mag if
cent old Canterbury, with It's hoary msgLi-
ticeut centuries OF glory when continental
emperurs did homage at its auolens shinel
WHAT glorious historical afiiuities are those
of Dunstan and A'Beckettl Indeed from
Sc. Augustine right down through the un-
broken sncce, sion of prelates to the present
Victorian age what an interesting, inspiring
story What a grateful chapter this must
oe to our own beloved preS.dlug preldte,
Bishop Lee, whu is undoubtedly quite iaml.
lar with many OF the beautiful spuis indicat-
ed by Pehuei, ON the banks Of the slow flow
Ing Stuur, closing with an illustration of
L ,mbeth Pdlace
But the above is only one of the beauties
in the garland Of literary flowers culied by
the CENTURY editors 30 accept ,by for their
readers. Another one that may be referred
to which is of absorbing interest ,s that OF
"Chul ch aud Meeting House before the Rev.
Outou." TIE royal arms in the chaDc OF
Goose Greek Church, as they are to-day, re-
mind one in lively manner Of colonial times
IN the Cd Dominion.
Ii any one des Tres a most genuine half
huurS' sid -splttiug laughter let h IN read
that most strange but true chapter b. Mark
Twain on "Euglish as She ID TAu 5ht.',
Clemens Brown actually outdoes himself in
tins. "Truth Is stranger than fiction" was
never more truly demonstrate ,hau this
case. The serlous Joking e,iuced, whith,
founded upon fact Is more Of laughter-oom-
peliiug than the best uf elaborat, d lunniness
written by the great humoiist. Along with
the serial stories other attractive miscelan-
eous reading matter is given, sufficient men,
tai pabalum for, the whole months diges-
tiUn.
The ECLECTIC Magaziue-The April mum.
ber Of this monthly brlugs to US sheaf Of
well-cuIled selections. "The Scientific Bas-
is Of Anarchy" will command attention from
such name as Prince Arthur kropotkin,
aud interest the pollticO-economic student
Such excepts as the following will indicate
tie style Of thought Therefore
the watchword Of Socialism is economical
freedom as the only basis for political free
dom.' Aud as long as the present wage sys-
TEN, with all its bad consequences, remaius
unalteIed the Socialist watchword will in
spire the wol lkman. Socialism will continue
to grow until it. has realized It's programme"
Agaiu-"ln proportion as all classes of the
community take more lively part in public
affairs, and knowledge spreads among the
masses, their longing for equality be,omes
stronger, aud their demands for social reor-
gauizdtiun become louder and stronger, they
can be ignored no more. The worker claims
his share in the cbes he produces;he claims
his share iu the management of production;
aud he claims not only some additional we'll
being, but also his full rights in the higher
enjnyments of science and art. These claims
which formerly were uttered only by the
social rrformer begin now to be- made by
daily growing minority of those whp work
| In the factory or till the acre aud they so
conform with our feelings of justice that
they find support in daily growing minor
ity amid the privileged Glasses themselves.
SOCIALISM becomes thus the idea of the nine
teeuth century; and neither olercion nor
pseudo-refOrms can stops its further growth.
In the chapter "Our Noble Selves" pretty
clearly shows in contrasting the present era
of EugIsh literature with the past ages that
-'the present is richer far in genius than the
past, the future bears with it the promise
aud potency of still richer and nubler har-
vest than the present. 1t is well worth any
readers time to look through the list of bril-.
liant writers of this last quarter century OF
the victorian era. That alone should satisfy
the questioner upon the point. The "RiVal-
~ OF England and Russia" is an iuieusrI Iy
interesting aud timely topic by Colonel q.
B. Madison, an East iudian, in which some
remarkably curious martial suggestions are
feied for the total overcome by England oI
the Gr-at Bear of the North, "Strictly
Incog," is paper describing some of the
uewest-learned customs of the insectivora
by which they evade detection of predatory
animals. It may be Simply stated that the
most wonderful statements are made, some
of which strongly test the crsdibrlity of the
reader and which but for the respectful lity